Ping Identity provides a custom Splunk app for PingAccess to process audit logs generated by a PingAccess deployment.
- Go to the Splunk website and download Splunk.
- Install Splunk.
Splunk is enterprise software that allows for monitoring, reporting, and analyzing consolidated log files. Splunk captures and indexes real-time data into a single searchable repository that you can generate reports, graphs, and other data visualization from.
The PingAccess app for Splunk is available separately. It requires enterprise-licensed (or trial) installation of the Splunk software and the Splunk Universal Forwarder, which collects data from the PingAccess Splunk audit logs. The application includes additional documentation on installation and available features.
The PingAccess app for Splunk provides rich system monitoring and reporting, including:
- Current transaction and system reports
- Service reports, such as a daily usage report and IdP and SP reports per connection
- Trend reports, such as weekly and monthly usage reports, and trend analysis
The application uses a specially formatted version of the audit logs. To write these specially formatted logs to the PingAccess log directory, perform the following steps.
The PingAccess app for Splunk was designed to use the default Splunk log pattern configuration. If you have changed the output format of the Splunk rolling files, those changes could impact the functionality of the PingAccess app for Splunk.